Personally I think a Journal should be private because then you don’t fear to wright down everything you have on your mind. Good or bad. It’s important to do that to succeed with productivity gains. If your mind can feel fresh, you will be a lot more balanced and effective.

Journaling will also help with your sleep. If you can go to bed with an empty head because you have written down all your thoughts into a journal, then you won’t wake up in the middle of the night thinking of the things that is nagging you, or on tasks that needs to be done, or on problems that you haven’t solved.

Of course you can write your journal in a normal paper notebook or diary, but personally I prefer to have my journal digitally and synced to all my devices. Fortunately there is a lot of apps available for that.

Apple Watch and the Day One Journaling App

And believe it or not, but the Apple Watch is great for logging your life with the right apps . I have been using the excellent journal app called Day One for a long time, and when I got my Apple Watch I found out that it has an excellent Apple Watch app too! It makes it so easy to check in to places you visit, or add the latest photo you have been taken on your iPhone to your journal directly from the watch![3] You can also of course use Siri (dictation) to add to your journal, or add entries from a predefined list of entries, like “at the cinema”, or “eating dinner with my wife”, and Day One automatically adds the location and time to the journal entry too. And Day One is one of the Apple Watch apps that I think pre-made messages and check-ins and so on works really great with.

Old version

New version

Day One is the best Journaling app there is on both iPhone, iPad and Mac. It’s in its own class. And the Apple Watch app makes it even better. In fact it’s so good that I prefer doing my daily entries from the Watch instead of my iOS devices or my Mac.

One of the best things with the Day One app is that you can now in the latest version, see all entries from all the different locations you have been and checked into. So you easily find and revive your journal entries from a specify place you have been. I really like that feature.

I can highly recommend you to start Journaling, and if you are an Apple user, check out the awesome app Day One. It’s available for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch and Mac.

Here is a video that shows 2 other Apple Watch workflows that makes me more productive:

A journal is a written record of your thoughts, experiences, and observations. ↩

According to Wikipedia: Writing therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses the act of writing and processing the written word as therapy. Writing therapy posits that writing one’s feelings gradually eases feelings of emotional trauma. ↩

I can’t find this feature anymore after the latest update? In the former version you could choose a photo to add to the journal entry directly from the Apple Watch app.. ↩

Many have asked me if I could make a watch face of the beautiful Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch, so I finally decided to try. So in this post you can find my own version of it as a watch face for smart watches. You need to have the Watchmaker Premium app to use my watch faces for free. The Omega Speedmaster Pro Moonwatch watch face is compatible with Wear OS and Tizen OS. So you can use it with Android Wear watches and Samsung Gear, Samsung Galaxy watches. Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch Watch Face features:Start/Stop Stopwatch between 10 and 11. Reset between 1 and 2. Showing battery level on second hand is optional. Tap in the middle to choose. Tap at 6 oclock to choose between 7 different brightness levels.On this watchface i also added an automatic decrease of brightness after sunset. It decreases the brightness with 40%. And get to normal brightness again at sunrise.To activate my weather station feature, tap at 12 oclock. Tap again to hide. Direct DownloadHow to…

Update: I have now updated my most popular watch face, the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer. It now has my new Weather Station feature. Just face it, it's actually smartwatches we use for these watch faces. So why not add some smart features? Personally I have always wanted an easy way to to see all the info I need in one place without hurting the beautiful look of the watch design. So I decided to create something simple as a "page" with all that information that I need. So with just one tap above 12 o'clock you can unveil my "Weather Station" with info about the weather, battery life, day, date and month. And of course the time. And with just a tap again at the same place, you can easily and fast hide it again. Personally I think it's useful, so I added that new feature to this watch face. I hope you like it too. If not, well then just simply not use it. As I said, it doesn't hurt the design in any way. I also made the second hand showing battery l…

I've updated one of my favorite watch faces, the Rolex Datejust. It now has a new really beautiful and magical background, my weather station, variable brightness, optional date cyclop, and an optional second hand showing battery life when dimmed. Enjoy!

The markers on the watchface glows beautifully in the dark. Even with the variable brightness set very low.

This watch face is very good for the battery life too, you can easily have brightness level 2 or 3 during the whole day. And 5-6 during the evening. At least here in Europe this time of year.

Watch video:
On this watchface i also added an automatic decrease of brightness after sunset. It decreases the brightness with 40%. And get to normal brightness again at sunrise.

Setting the brightness level between 5-7 works great in low light environments. This variable brightness can you use together with the automated too if you like. Both works simultaneously.

Tap below 6 to choose between 7 different brightness levels. I added t…